42 Facts About Tracey Ullman

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Tracey Ullman was born on Trace Ullman; 30 December 1959 and is a British-American actress, comedian, singer, writer, producer, and director.

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Tracey Ullman would go on to star in her own network television comedy series, The Tracey Ullman Show from 1987 until 1990, which featured the first appearances of the long-running animated media franchise The Simpsons.

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Tracey Ullman later produced programmes for HBO, including Tracey Takes On.

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Tracey Ullman was the first British woman to be offered her own television sketch show in both the United Kingdom and the United States.

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In 2016, she returned to British television with the BBC sketch comedy show Tracey Ullman's Show, her first project for the broadcaster in over thirty years.

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Tracey Ullman is the recipient of numerous accolades, including twelve American Comedy Awards, seven Primetime Emmy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, four Satellite Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

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Tracey Ullman was born Trace Ullman in Slough, Buckinghamshire, the younger of two daughters, to Doreen, who was of British and Roma extraction, and Anthony John Ullman, a Roman Catholic Pole.

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Tracey Ullman brokered marriages and translated among the emigre Polish community.

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Tracey Ullman eventually caught the attention of a headmaster, who recommended that she attend a performing arts school.

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Tracey Ullman won a full scholarship to the Italia Conti Academy at the age of twelve.

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Tracey Ullman branched out into musical theatre and was cast in numerous West End musicals including Grease, Elvis The Musical, and The Rocky Horror Show.

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In less than two years, Tracey Ullman had six songs in the UK Top 100.

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Tracey Ullman's songs were over-the-top evocations of 1960s and 1970s pop music with a 1980s edge, "somewhere between Minnie Mouse and the Supremes" as Melody Maker put it, or "retro before retro was cool", as a reviewer wrote in 2002.

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Tracey Ullman's career received another boost when the video for "They Don't Know" featured a cameo appearance from Paul McCartney; at the time Ullman was filming a minor role in McCartney's film Give My Regards to Broad Street.

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Tracey Ullman released her second album You Caught Me Out in 1984.

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Tracey Ullman's final hit, "Sunglasses", featured comedian Adrian Edmondson in its music video.

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Tracey Ullman began her television career in 1980 playing Lynda Bellingham's daughter in the British series Mackenzie.

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Tracey Ullman appeared in Les Blair's avant-garde Four in a Million, an improvised play about club acts, at London's Royal Court Theatre.

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Tracey Ullman won the London Critics Circle Theatre Award as Most Promising New Actress for her performance.

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Tracey Ullman was cast as the promiscuous golddigger Candice Valentine.

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In 1985, Tracey Ullman was persuaded by her husband, British independent television producer Allan McKeown, to join him in Los Angeles, where he was already partially based.

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Tracey Ullman set her sights on a film and stage career, believing that there was little in the way of television for her.

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The Tracey Ullman Show was awarded ten Primetime Emmy Awards, with Ullman winning three, one in the category of Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program in 1990.

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In 1991, Tracey Ullman's husband placed a successful bid on a television franchise in the South of England.

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Tracey Ullman Takes on New York debuted on 9 October 1993.

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Tracey Ullman returned to HBO again in 2005 with her one-woman stage show Tracey Ullman: Live and Exposed.

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Tracey Ullman's performance garnered her a Primetime Emmy Award, her seventh, and an American Comedy Award which was her eleventh.

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Tracey Ullman played Princess Winnifred, a role originally made famous by Burnett on Broadway.

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In March 2014, Tracey Ullman was introduced as Genevieve Scherbatsky, the mother of character Robin Scherbatsky in How I Met Your Mother.

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On 14 May 2019, it was announced that Tracey Ullman would be portraying Betty Friedan in the FX limited series Mrs America.

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Tracey Ullman's performance garnered her an Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Primetime Emmy nomination.

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In 2021, Tracey Ullman plays councilwoman Irma Kostroski in the eleventh season of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

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Tracey Ullman's first theatrical film was a small role in Paul McCartney's film Give My Regards to Broad Street.

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Tracey Ullman made her big screen leading role debut in I Love You to Death acting alongside Kevin Kline, River Phoenix, and Joan Plowright.

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Tracey Ullman appeared in lead and supporting roles in films such as Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Nancy Savoca's Household Saints, Bullets Over Broadway, Small Time Crooks, and A Dirty Shame.

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Tracey Ullman played Jack's mother in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Into the Woods and appeared in the musical film The Prom.

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Tracey Ullman has an extensive stage career spanning back to the 1970s.

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Tracey Ullman's performance earned her an Evening Standard Theatre Awards nomination for Best Actress.

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Tracey Ullman had performed the piece previously in a test run for Idle back in 2007.

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Tracey Ullman's mother died in a fire at her flat on 23 March 2015.

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In September 2018, Tracey Ullman said that her daughter was pregnant and that she was about to become a grandmother for the first time.

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Tracey Ullman holds dual citizenship in the United Kingdom and the United States.